ISU AD ejected after comments at his son’s basketball game

Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard was removed from a high school game Tuesday night after railing at an official at his son’s high-school basketball game in Colfax, Iowa.

Des Moines television station KCCI is reporting that Pollard was booted from his son’s game after a game official asked that Pollard should be removed after making a call against the ISU athletic directo’s son’s Gilbert High School team.

“The official went over to the scorers bench, at that point Mr. Pollard just told the official that he thought it was a bad call,” Marty Lucas, superintendent at the Colfax-Mingo School District, told the television station.

The incident happened toward the end of the game.

“The official took it as maybe being called out in front of the crowd, but again, everyone I talked to said there was nothing inappropriate. There was no foul language, not yelling — nothing like that,” Lucas said.

It’s the first time a Big 12 coach or official has been involved in an altercation during a child’s game since former Kansas coach Mark Mangino went ballistic over football calls when his son was playing at Lawrence, Kan.

But it’s never good when the behavior of any public official becomes a point of controversy.